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"Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret Cere... - 3/31/2011 7:44:20 PM   
FirmhandKY


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Shh! Obama gets anti-secrecy award
By ABBY PHILLIP | 03/30/11 4:17 PM
Updated: 03/31/11 2:35 PM

President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.

The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.

This time, Obama met quietly in the Oval Office with Gary Bass of OMB Watch, Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.

“Our understanding going into the meeting was that it would have a pool photographer and a print reporter, and it turned out to be a private meeting,” Bass told POLITICO.

This is just sadly humorous, and perhaps indicative of why this Presidency has a "public relations problem".

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 3/31/2011 8:21:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		This could be the funniest thing Ive heard since he won the NP.

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 3/31/2011 8:52:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		I saw a report recently about Homeland Security memos, and allegations that FOIA documents were being politically vetted before release was approved. They may feel that now isn't the best time to give this any play at all.

But oh yes, the irony!

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 3/31/2011 9:08:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		LOLOL, I heard that on the radio but I thought it was a joke!
They actually did that?

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 3/31/2011 10:59:28 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

I saw a report recently about Homeland Security memos, and allegations that FOIA documents were being politically vetted before release was approved. They may feel that now isn't the best time to give this any play at all.

But oh yes, the irony!

Oh, yeah.  That's a 'hole 'nother story, as they say.

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 3/31/2011 11:01:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hang on, if y'all heard about it, how secret is it ?

Nuff said I think.

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 3/31/2011 11:02:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

LOLOL, I heard that on the radio but I thought it was a joke!
They actually did that?

Yup.  They actually did.

And I can't understand it, really, unless they didn't want attention given to some of the secretive things that they have done, and didn't want the juxtaposition to introduce even more cognitive dissonance into their supporters.

But this is just so ... damn ironic (hat tip Heretic) ...

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 3/31/2011 11:05:56 PM   
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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 3/31/2011 11:34:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Rome wasn’t built in a day and they are building towards the kind of transparency we all expect from our government. And it’s their award they can give it to whoever they want,

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 4/1/2011 12:18:39 AM   
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So maybe he should have turned down both because he was simply unworthy in the eyes of conservatives?

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 4/1/2011 12:26:24 AM   
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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY
Yup.  They actually did.

And I can't understand it, really, unless they didn't want attention given to some of the secretive things that they have done, and didn't want the juxtaposition to introduce even more cognitive dissonance into their supporters.

But this is just so ... damn ironic (hat tip Heretic) ...

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Oooohhhh.........I like big words.

They make you sound important Firmy.

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 4/1/2011 3:52:18 AM   
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Lighten up, youll live longer. Even the great Obama jokes about that!

Obama On Energy Sec Chu: "He Actually Deserved His Nobel Prize"

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Ever think it was because people like you slammed him for getting the Nobel Peace Prize, which by the way is not a competition.

So maybe he should have turned down both because he was simply unworthy in the eyes of conservatives?



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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 4/1/2011 5:23:31 AM   
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

Ever think it was because people like you slammed him for getting the Nobel Peace Prize, which by the way is not a competition.

So maybe he should have turned down both because he was simply unworthy in the eyes of conservatives?

What are "people like me"?

When did I ever "slam" him for getting the Nobel?

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RE: "Transparency Award" ... Given in Secret ... - 4/1/2011 5:24:37 AM   
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

quote:

ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY
Yup.  They actually did.

And I can't understand it, really, unless they didn't want attention given to some of the secretive things that they have done, and didn't want the juxtaposition to introduce even more cognitive dissonance into their supporters.

But this is just so ... damn ironic (hat tip Heretic) ...

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Oooohhhh.........I like big words.

They make you sound important Firmy.

Ya got an substance, rml?

Or do you just do "snide"?

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